Path: alphanet.ch!imp.ch!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!visi.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!159.115.1.5!news.cccd.edu!news.cccd.edu!not-for-mail From: markb@cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) Newsgroups: alt.support.tinnitus,alt.rock-n-roll.hard,alt.sci.physics.acoustics,misc.health.alternative,rec.audio.misc,rec.audio.pro,rec.music.makers,rec.music.misc,sci.med,sci.med.dentistry,sci.med.nutrition Subject: Tinnitus FAQ Pointer Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 8 Dec 1996 09:00:08 -0800 Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 52 Sender: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu Expires: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:00:05 PDT Message-ID: Reply-To: markb@cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) NNTP-Posting-Host: spock.dis.cccd.edu Summary: How to obtain the Tinnitus FAQ Keywords: faq tinnitus ear ringing Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 beta (Perl 5.003) Archive-name: tinnitus-ptr Posting-Frequency: weekly Last-modified: 6 September 1995 Version: 1.3 Tinnitus is a hearing disorder that can be described as "ringing" ears or the perception of other sounds in the absence of any externally generated noise. Tinnitus has many causes, with overexposure to loud sounds being the most common, but also due to some potentially serious underlying medical conditions. Many treatments are available, ranging from simple nutritional approaches to dangerous prescription drugs. Unfortunately many cases of tinnitus are incurable. There are a number of tinnitus organizations you can join that will use your dues to fund research on possible cures. The largest tinnitus organization in the United States is the American Tinnitus Association (details in FAQ below). The Tinnitus Frequently Answered Questions document is posted monthly to alt.support.tinnitus, alt.answers, and news.answers. The most recently published version of the FAQ is always available from the FAQ maintainer's site at: Since this is an "official" Usenet FAQ, it is also available at any FAQ archive site, such as: To retrieve all 170+K of the FAQ via e-mail as a single huge reply, send a message to majordomo@cccd.edu, and in the body of the message use one of the following commands: get faq tinnitus.html get faq tinnitus.txt To retrieve the FAQ split into multiple smaller replies, send e-mail to an ftp-by-mail server (there are many) such as ftpmail@census.gov, and in the body of the message indicate .html or .txt as shown below (note that ftpmail servers are very popular, so response time may range from several hours to several days): open ftp.cccd.edu get /pub/faq/tinnitus.txt quit -- Mark Bixby E-mail: markb@cccd.edu Coast Community College Dist. Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/ District Information Services 1370 Adams Ave, Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626-5429 Technical Support +1 714 438-4647 "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)